The Witcher 2 Oh, Dead Again

I really loved The Witcher.  It was a fun game, even though it had the nasty habit of killing you every few minutes.  The new Witcher follows along in that tradition, and I am growing to love it. I bought the Witcher 2 the day it came out-and found that it was all but impossible for me to play.  This was due to a couple of factors, a computer that may be a bit below the minimum requirements and a certain laziness on my part when it comes to having to learn how to do a couple of dozen different…

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Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut

Too many modern books are either parts of a series, or 700 pages long, or both.   Too many classic novels suffer from the same problem, War and Peace and pretty much anything by Dickens is a long term project.  Somewhere along the line a number of writers decided to bang out books that could be read in one or two sittings.  Kurt Vonnegut was one of those writers. Slapstick is another good old fashioned End of The World book-Kurt Vonnegut loves that whole post-Apocalyptic thing.  People die by the millions, nations crumble into ruins, and the Chinese learn to control…

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